Do you have any control over this, or is it just taking you where it wants to go?

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I control the steering of it, left/right up/down. Someone else had control of the throttle though. More advanced riders can control everything themselves, but they don't want to give beginners the throttle in case they need to shut us down, and so we can't go flying too high into the air.

It definitely takes some practice. You gotta keep a forward momentum. If you lean back at all, it can start whipping you around. That happened to me a bit in this video: